Two weeks ago was allergy awareness week in New Zealand. A key articule/news
item that was run was about Grant Freeman who died after eating a meal at a
restaurant. (
New Zealand Herald). Grant Freeman was my sister in-laws brother. The Thomas
Whittle in this article is my nephew.

Donna has been speaking out about
food allergies and encouranging people to get themselves tested so they can find
out exactly how l
reactive they may be. Grant never got tested so didn’t
know the serverity of the reaction. Donna was recently on Breakfast TV and I
think did an amazing job.

So if you thinik you may be allergice to a
food, please go and get tested, it could save your life.

I’ve just had the most wonderful 4 days off here in Tokyo. The plan was to head down to Shimoda and the beach. Everyone was wondering why the hell goto the beach when a Typhoon was coming in.

After alot of time thinking, and realising
that I’ve not been posting stuff to the blog for a long time,
I’ve put alot of my thoughts back into order.

Part of that maybe that the all the Chemo drugs are flusing out of
my body. its taking bloody ages to get rid of them. While most days
pass without thinking of it there are days when I just crash and I
know it my normal self but rather the after affect of having all
the shte in my body.

I starting writing this do I miss the UK, yes I do. There are so
many things about London that I really loved. I still live in a
huge city but I miss the diversity of London. Here its Japan or
not. Fair enough I live in Japan so what else should I expect. I’m
going to try and write more.

later.

I’ve not written to the blog for while,
or done any work on it. The last month has been up and down, the
beginning was very low health wise and I’ve found that when I
crash I really do crash. A charming after effect of the chemo! Last
checkup yesterday was okish. The word I think were ‘… normal’.
I can’t remember the qualifier that the doctor used, but it was a
qualifier. The CAT scan and chest xray are clear, but the tumor
markers are not quite so. Still within the normal range, but one is
going up and at the current reate will be abnormal by next test.

Effort now is to get that blood market down so tommorow we are
moving into a detox diet and see if we can kick the immune system
into fighting it.

Work is trucking along and I’m flat out with stuff thats actually
rather interesting! I’m almost busy!!

1. Okay, okay! I take it back. Unscrew you.
2. You say I’m a bitch like it’s a bad thing.
3. Well this day was a total waste of makeup.
4. Don’t bother me, I’m living happily ever after.
5. Do I look like a people person?
6. This isn’t an office. It’s hell with fluorescent lighting.
7. I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.
8. Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble wrap is cheap. You choose.
9. Why don’t you try practicing random acts of intelligence and senselessacts of self-control?
10. Sarcasm is just one more service I offer.
11. Do they ever shut up on your planet?
12. I’m not your type. I’m not inflatable.
13. Stress is what you have when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t gone to sleep yet.
14. Back off!! You’re standing on my aura.
15. I work 45 hours a week to be this poor.
16. Not all men are annoying. Some are dead.
17. Wait…I’m trying to imagine you with a personality.
18. Chaos, panic and disorder…my work here is done.
19. Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.
20. You look like shit. Is that the style now?
21. Earth is full. Go home.
22. Aw, did I step on your poor little itty bitty ego?
23. I’m not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.
24. A hard-on doesn’t count as personal growth.
25. If assholes could fly, this place would be an airport.
26. Look in my eyes…do you see one ounce of gives-a-shit.

Please grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the
courage to change the things I cannot accept,
and the wisdom to know where
to hide the bodies of the idiots I had to kill today.

Well, I know I’ve been useless at getting
the Cambodia travels put online, but I’m trying slowly. Things
have taken a turn for the interesting at work as my manager
resigned while I was away. She has been one of the best managers
I’ve ever worked with. I would propose that I do know having
worked for a total mixture of them. Some good, some bad, some
amazing and other who have umm oh been fired.

Her impending departure has meant aload of changes within the
managment and most of them I don’t won’t to write about under
this know name. Maybe I should open a different blog somewhere and
write about it. Soap operas have nothing on this. My best way of
describing it is read Dilbert.

My trip was really great. We had good
karma running with us all the time (well almost all, I had some bad
yoghurt which didn’t help the tummy for 1 night, but recovered
fast). We flew via Singapore and had a very long stop over,
fortunately I have a friend who now lives there so we stayed the
night at her place before heading to Phnom Penh for the night. From
there we went directly to Siem Reap by bus to begin Temple viewing.
We stayed in a great hotel called the Golden Banana in there
boutique hotel bit which is 7 really nice apartments all around a
pool! The pool was very important as it was very hot (about 38
degrees). Temples were just amazing and we spent an extra day there
to do the outlying ones which was well worth the time (and one
pulled calf muscle by me!).

From Siem Reap we took a river boat trip
up to Battambang. Our luck was really going well as the rains we
had over the previous days mean the boat could go all the way up
river. Its was an incredible boat trip and gave an amazing insight
into river life. It can be also upsetting as some of these people
live in deep poverty with houses constructed of sticks and plastic
bags. Out luck was really giong well as the Villa we wanted to stay
at had a spare room for us. Its a restored 1930 french villa and
was amazing. (no pool, but we got soaking wet anyway as the monsoon
rain hit and we had no umbrellas). We had booked into a cooking
course to learn Kymer food. Was really fun, going around the market
and cooking up. The have an ingredient call Prahok, which smells
like fermented rotten fish, which is an accurate smell since it is
fermented rotten fish! I didn’t put much into my soup but I do
have to admit once its cooked for a while it tastes great!

We also did a motor bike tour around of
the home industries making things rice paper, and mushrooms. And
took a trip on the famous Bamboo Railway. Our luck was in again as
we got onto the bus to head back to Phnom Penh just as the skies
opened up again. We had a great time there as well nosing around
different thing and just slowing down to relax as we had been up
very very early (like 5am) when going out to view temples. And then
it was over and time to head home, we did well again thou as the
serviced apartment we stayed in were happy for us to stay until
3pm, so we shopped, then lounged by pool, showered and were driven
out to the airport! Flight back was okay, duty free in Changi took
a hinding as we got bored at the fragrence counter!

Wow, what a trip. Back from two weeks in Cambodia travelling around and seeing things again. The trip was via Singapore with a long layover which would have been a issue except my best friend now lives there so had a wonderful tme cathing up with her and breaking into her place at 3am in the morning! opps 

There is something that I write about very rarely, and it many ways thats probably my bigest crime, as they are the ones I should talk about all the time. There were previously many insignificant reasons why this did not happen, and now there is really no excuse.